Bottle.



L. G. SABBAG.

30 APPLICATION wit/me 0012s UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE LITFALLAH G. SABBAG, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO THOMAS S. N. MALOOF, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 16, 1908.

Application filed October 5, 1907. Serial No. 396,036.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LITFALLAH GEORGE SABBAG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Bottles, of which the following description, in connection with the ao companying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to bottles and particularly to means to prevent the re-use thereof.

Many attempts have been made to provide such bottles, but, so far as I am aware, they are such as to prohibit the commercial use of the bottle, because of the cost.

lWIy aim is to provide a bottle, the cost whereof is no more or but slightly more than the cost of the ordinary bottle.

In order that the principles of my invention may be clearly understood, I have shown one type or embodiment thereof in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of a bottle constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical, transverse section of the upper portion of such bottle; Fig. 3 is a plan view of the mouth of the bottle constructed in accordance with my invention with the stopper secured in position; Fig. 4 is a per spective view of a form of cork or stopper that may be used in said bottle; and Fig. 5 is a plan view of one form of mouth of a bottle constructed in accordance with my invention.

Referring more specifically to that single form of the invention herein shown, the body of the bottle is represented in Figs. 1 and 2 at 1, it being of any suitable shape. I pro vide suitable means, secured to the bottle, to enga e the stopper and hold it in position, and to this end, in the preferred embodiment of my invention, during the formation of the bottle, as in the blowing thereof, I insert in the neck one or more strands, preferably metallic, and formed as a wire or wires 2, which thus are anchored firmly in place. It is apparent that any other suitable means may be employed to anchor such wire or wires, but I find that I can most cheaply and effectively secure them in the manner described.

I am, of course, aware that wires have heretofore been anchored in the'neck of a bottle in this manner, and I do not claim this feature broadly, but in combination with the i other features of my invention whereby, so far as I am aware, a new result is obtained. In bottles heretofore constructed employing wires anchored in the material of the neck and adapted to be twisted or otherwise secured together above the cork, such cork has been of substantially cylindrical formation and when forced into the neck of the bottle remains seated in position, owing to the friction between its periphery and the inner face of the neck, unless perhaps the contents of the bottle be such that exceedingly great or very extreme pressure is brought to bear upon the inner end of the cork. That is to say, in such bottles as heretofore have had a wire or wires embedded in the neck thereof, the ends being twisted together upon the upper face of the cork, such wires have acted merely as a precautionary measure and have not been relied upon as the sole or principal means for holding the cork in position. At the most, such wires have been merely slightly adjunctive to the frictional resistance existing between the cylindrical face of the cork and the correspondingly shaped inner face of the neck of the bottle.

In accordance with my invention, I so form the inner face of the neck that such face does not co-act with the correspondingly shaped face of the cork or stopper to hold the same in position, nor even to cooperate with other means to hold the same in position. In the preferred embodiment of my invention, the taper 3 of the inner face of the neck is substantially that herein shown and is such that, as above stated, there is practically no binding between such inner face and the peripheral wall of the cork or stopper 9, the latter being of similar contour and merely resting therein in a manner permitting the ready removal thereof, were it not for the binding wires 2. As shown, the lower edge of the inner inclined face 3 of the neck terminates with an annular shoulder 4.

I preferably impart to the inner face of the neck of the bottle a-pyramidal contour, as represented in Fig. 5. Therein, the said inner face of the neck comprises four triangular portions 5, 6, 7 and 8, the bases whereof extend to the upper edge of the neck, and the apices whereof approach each other at the point of least diameter of the passage through said neck. By the employment of a neck having a pyramidally shaped inner face,

securing means such as I secure several advantages over a neck that is conical, although such latter construction is within the scope of my invention, and may be employed by me in certain forms thereof, inasmuch as with substantially the taper indicated there is little binding action between the stopper and the inner face of the neck, thus necessitating the employing of suitable the wires 2. If the inner surface of the neck be pyramidal, the several members of such surface together exert less binding action upon the cork than would be the case if such inner face were continuous that is, than if there were provided a large number of such members merging gradually into each other, as where a cylindrical or conical neck is provided. In the case of a curved face, conical or cylindrical in contour, the lines of binding force are not interrupted, as occurs where the several members making up the entire face are at angles to each other. In the latter case, such lines of union between the members interrupt the continuity of the lines of action of the binding force. A pyramidal stopper cannot be rotated or twisted into exceedingly tight engagement with the inner face of the neck, but must merely be seated by direct pressure, and hence, not being as tightly held, the wires or strands 2 must be relied on to hold the stop er in position. If the stopper be pyramida the force tending to expel the same must work along straight lines, and this action is resisted by the wires extending in the same direction, thus the two forces directly neutralize each other, and if two wires be employed diametrically disposed at their anchoring points, they cannot be laterally displaced by a partially rotative or twisting action of the cork or stopper, resulting from pressure upon the inner end thereof. Furthermore, a pyrami dally shaped neck means the employment of a specially shaped stopper, so that if in opening the bottle for the first use thereof, the stopper be damaged or lost, it cannot be readily replaced.

The bottle having been filled as desired, the stopper or cork 9 of similar contour is inserted in the mouth thereof and is bound into position by the twisting or otherwise securing together of the wires 22. IVhen the purchaser of the bottle desires to use the contents, he breaks the wires 2 by some suitable implement, so that he may readily and. quickly remove the cork.

He never I attempts to untwist the wires, inasmuch as such operation would occupy considerable time and would require a special tool. More over, since the question of reuse of the bottle or future disposition thereof is one that does not concern the user, save possibly in rare instances, he almost invariably resorts to the most convenient means at hand to open the bottle quickly, and therefore simply breaks the wires, as above stated. The wire or wires having been broken, obviously they cannot again be used to bind the cork or stopper in position, and since the latter will not remain in place by reason of the peculiar formation of the inner face of the neck, as above described, the bottle is without further use.

It will be observed that in this embodiment of the invention, the bottle 1 is devoid of an exterior annular flange or shoulder or the like, such as is usually provided at the neck portion thereof. By the omission of such flange or shoulder, after the first use of the bottle, it would be impossible to secure a wire about the exterior of the bottle and twist the ends thereof together above the cork for re-use.

Having thus described one type or embodiment of my invention, I desire it to be understood that although specific terms are employed, they are used in a generic and descriptive sense and not for purposes of limitation, the scope of the invention being set forth in the following claims.

Claims. 1

As a new article of manufacture, a bottle, the neck of which is devoid of exterior holding projections and having a stopper receiving opening polygonal in cross section and elongated in the direction of the length of the bottle neck, said opening flaring sharply outward to prevent frictional retention of a stopper, and stopper ,retaining wires molded into the wall of the bottle neck with their ends protruding therefrom and adapted to be secured together over and to retain a stopper in the neck and to be separated for the removal of the stopper.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LITFALLAH G. SABBAG.

Witnesses:

ROBERT H. KAMMLER, IRVING U. TOWNSEND. 

